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Salisbury Cathedral clock, restored. The Salisbury Cathedral clock is a large iron-framed tower clock without a dial, in Salisbury Cathedral, England.Thought to date from about 1386, it is a well-preserved example of the earliest type of mechanical clock, called verge and foliot clocks, and is said to be the oldest working clock in the world, [1] although similar claims are made for other clocks.
There are 38 buildings and structures listed as Grade I by Historic England in the city of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Twenty-one are within the Cathedral Close. Elsewhere there are: 3 churches; 2 residences; 2 inns; 6 buildings that had an institutional or community use when constructed; 3 river bridges; an ancient ruin.
The medieval clock. The Salisbury Cathedral clock, which dates from about AD 1386, is supposedly the oldest working modern clock in the world. [44] The clock has no face; all clocks of that date rang out the hours on a bell. It was originally in a bell tower that was demolished in 1792.
Salisbury Cathedral clock, dating from about 1386, is one of the oldest working clocks in the world, and may be the oldest; it still has most of its original parts. [106] [note 5] The Wells Cathedral clock, built in 1392, is unique in that it still has its original medieval face. Above the clock are figures which hit the bells, and a set of ...
Malmesbury House is a Grade I listed building in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in the city's cathedral close. Located on the eastern side of the close by the St Anne's Gate, it is one of numerous historic buildings in the city. [1] It was constructed in 1416 during the late medieval era and replaced an earlier house demolished in 1399.
What started in 1921 as a primarily a teachers' college to meet the needs of regional schools has grown into a university with more than 8,700 students from more than 30 states and 60 foreign ...
The college's main building in Salisbury was still standing in 1826, when it was sketched by Robert Benson, Deputy Recorder of Salisbury, and his work was engraved for Peter Hall's Picturesque Memorials of Salisbury (1834), in which Hall claims that by 1834 it had been demolished and a row of houses built on the land. These are now called De ...
The Ohio Clock is an 1815 clock in the United States Capitol; The Town Clock of Dubuque, Iowa is in a downtown clock tower, built in 1864. The Clock of the Nations, Rochester, New York was located at the Midtown Plaza in the 1960s. It had dioramas of 12 different nations. Every hour on the hour the dioramas opened up and music was played.